Over the course of two months, Story of Stuff worked with its global community of Changemakers to crowdsource Coca-Cola commercials, ads and imagery displaying the company’s products. Coca-Cola is one of the world’s biggest advertisers spending $4 billion every year to advertise its products and is known as one of the world’s most recognized brands.…
Washington State could become the eleventh state in the nation to enact a ‘bottle bill’ by including a small deposit on bottles and cans to incentivize their return for recycling and reuse. We polled more than 130 members of the Story of Stuff Community to get their take and see what’s important to them. The…
Investment in improved return infrastructure is welcome but must include enhanced oversight of retailers’ compliance with their takeback responsibilities The California agency CalRecycle has announced a new budget proposal committing nearly half of the $600 million surplus it currently holds from unredeemed bottle and can deposits to improving the recycling rate of the 26 billion…
Keep America Beautiful (KAB), a nonprofit organization working on behalf of corporate giants such as Coca-cola, PepsiCo and McDonald’s has released a new report revealing the findings of a decade of litter collection in the US. KAB launched in the 1950s and created the notorious ‘Crying Indian’ PSA, a public relations effort to redirect the…
Years Long Water Bottling Controversy Centers on Arrowhead Brand’s Namesake Spring Complex — Company Given 20 Days to Respond Contact: Michael O’Heaney, Executive Director(510) 684-6417, [email protected] CALIFORNIA – Today, California’s State Water Resources Control Board issued an updated Report of Investigation and draft Cease & Desist Order finding that Nestle Waters North America, now Blue Triton…
WHAT THIS BILL DOES The California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act is the most ambitious state legislation introduced to slash plastic pollution. It phases out nonrecyclable single-use plastics, reduces demand for ‘virgin’ plastic, creates green jobs… and provides a model for other states to follow! Passing this bill will be a huge win for the global movement to…
Last month, legislators voted to advance the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, representing what would be the most comprehensive state-wide legislation in the US to reduce plastic pollution. It would phase out nonrecyclable single-use plastics, and redefine what’s truly recyclable. This is the basis we need for a circular system — with…
Until 2018, 4000 shipping containers of trash were exported from the US to China daily. As the environmental costs of importing plastic have crystallized, and one country after another bans plastic imports, we’ve seen a desperate scramble from Western countries to find new places to send their trash. As this new long-term reality sets in,…
This week, members of Michigan’s lame duck legislature introduced a bill that could repeal Michigan’s 40-year-old bottle deposit law. If passed, the bill would undermine a successful bottling collection program that has recovered an average of 96% of bottles sold. What’s a container deposit? Container deposits are a system designed to reduce pollution by incentivizing the…
